Yes. Lack of direction and a disregard for what came before. The whole thing plays out like a one off movie. Everything wraps up at the end with nothing hanging over to the next movie. Much like ANH, except that GL didn't make it as part of a trilogy. At the time, George had one shot at making the movie he wanted, it's success allowed for a sequel or two.
This is probably why RJ turned down epIX. He made TLJ as if it was his one and only chance to do a SW movie.
To me, it seems self indulgent, shortsighted and naive. Every explaination he gives for all the errors, omissions and wtf moments just expose his fundamental misunderstanding of Star Wars. Whether you subscribe or not to the concept of SWIQ as coined by @
The Wook, somethings are not right with this movie.
I would liken it to watching bad cgi, your mind knows something is wrong and wil not accept it.